Ted Nugent Guitarist Extraordinaire

Ed Roman & Ted Nugent1985(That's Rick Derringer with his back to the Camera)

Journey to the Center of the Mind - 1969 (Press Arrow to Play)

When I first met Ted Nugent
back in the early 70's, I was just a fan of his guitar playing. It was years
later that I became aware, Ted is much more than a guitar
player.

Ted may not be the most
diplomatic person in the world, Some say he may be a little over the top
but Damn! everything I have ever heard this guy say is right on.I
have been a fan since "Journey To the Center of the Mind". I have met Ted
backstage when Journey was his opening act. I was backstage at several Damn
Yankees shows and of course the Kiss Tour. I had a business partner that
was Ted's Manager during the Damn Yankees era so I was able to wangle my way
backstage fairly easily.

Readers of my site know that I
can be pretty outspoken and sometimes even intimidating, When I am around
Ted I am as quiet as a church mouse. Why? I don't want to miss a
word of what he says. The guy is downright spellbinding.

I admire him for his politics and his
outspoken ways. This country needs a few more like Ted Nugent.

I can't think of anyone I would
rather see as President of this Country !!

Ed Roman 1997

Myself & Ted 2006 delivering Ted's
first Quicksilver Guitar.

Ted said about the Quicksilver

"He'd ride it naked
into the sunset"

When
we got the specifications for Ted's guitar we were a little bit
surprised. Ted said he "wanted the body built from Korina with a
solid Spruce top."

The sample Quicksilver he had tried had a solid macassar ebony
neck, Ted really seemed to like that so we went with it. I had
expected him to order that weird Byrdland scale but he went for a
25" scale which is my personal favorite.

Ted didn't specify the built in 32 Caliber counterweight but
if you look at the picture to the left you will notice a devilish
smile and a red glint in his eye. I didn't do the red eye
reduction for this photo because Ted as smiling an evil smile.

He said, "All I need now is a Gun with a guitar in it"

Ted
Nugent has released more than 34 albums, and has sold a career total
of 30 million records. He was known throughout his early career in
the 1970s for using Fender amps, a large part of his signature
sound.

Nugent in concert with his signature
Gibson Byrdland guitar

Performing professionally since 1958,
Nugent has been touring annually since 1967, averaging more than 300
shows per year (1967–73), 200 per year (1974–80), 150 (1981–89), 127
concerts in 1990, 162 concerts in 1991, 150 concerts in 1993, 180 in
1994, 166 in 1995, 81 in 1996, Summer Blitz '97, '98, Rock Never
Stops '99, 133 concerts with KISS 2K. Nugent's 2005 plans involved a
tour with country music singer-songwriter Toby Keith, whom Nugent
met in Iraq while they were both performing in USO-sponsored shows
for the coalition troops. Nugent toured with local
Detroit musician Alex Winston during the summers of 2007 and
2008.[1]

On July 4, 2008 at the DTE Energy Music
Theater in Clarkston, Michigan, Ted Nugent played his 6,000th
concert. Derek St. Holmes (original singer for the Ted Nugent band),
Johnny Bee Badanjek (drummer for Mitch Ryder and The Detroit
Wheels), and Ted's guitar teacher from 1958 Joe Podorsek all jammed
on stage with Ted for various tunes.

Amboy Dukes

His first edition of The Amboy Dukes
played at The Cellar, a teen dance club outside of Chicago in
Arlington Heights, Illinois, starting in late 1965, while Nugent was
a student at St. Viator High School. The Cellar's "house band" at
the time had been the Shadows of Knight, although the Amboy Dukes
eventually became a staple until the club's closing.

The Amboy Dukes' second single was
"Journey to the Center of the Mind," which featured lyrics written
by the Dukes' second guitarist Steve Farmer. Nugent, an ardent
anti-drug campaigner, claims to this day he did not realize this
song was about drug use. The Amboy Dukes (1967), Journey to the
Center of the Mind (1968) and Migration (1969) — all recorded on the
Mainstream label — sold moderately well.

After settling down on a ranch in
Michigan in 1973, Nugent signed a record deal with Frank Zappa's
DiscReet Records label and recorded Call of the Wild. The following
year, Tooth Fang & Claw (which contained the song "Great White
Buffalo") established a fan base for Nugent and the other Amboy
Dukes. Personnel changes nearly wrecked the band, which became known
as Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes.

Ted Nugent reunited with the other
members of the Amboy Dukes at the 2009 Detroit Music Awards, which
took place April 17, 2009. The psychedelic band received a
distinguished achievement honor at the event. The Dukes also played
together at the ceremony, marking their first public performance in
more than 30 years.

Solo career

Main article: Ted Nugent discography

Nugent dropped the Amboy Dukes band
name for good in 1975, and signed to Epic Records. Derek St. Holmes
(guitar, vocals), Rob Grange (bass) and Clifford Davies (drums) were
the primary additional band members for his classic 1970s
multi-platinum[4] albums: Ted Nugent (1975), Free-for-All (1976) and
Cat Scratch Fever (1977). These albums produced the popular radio
anthems "Hey Baby," "Stranglehold," "Dog Eat Dog" and "Cat Scratch
Fever." It was during these three years that Nugent truly emerged as
a guitar hero to thousands of young hard rock fans, many of whom
were unaware of his lengthy apprenticeship with the Amboy Dukes.
This band lineup toured extensively, also releasing the
multi-platinum live album Double Live Gonzo!, until its breakup in
1978 when St. Holmes and Grange departed. St. Holmes was replaced by
Charlie Huhn and Grange by Dave Kiswiney. Davies finally left around
1982 after staying on to record Weekend Warriors (1978), State of
Shock (1979), Scream Dream (1980) and Intensities in 10 Cities
(1981).

On July 8, 1979, Ted was on the rock
radio program King Biscuit Flower Hour. This was the original
broadcast of Ted's performance of Live at Hammersmith '79 which had
been recorded during the second set of a sold-out night at London's
Hammersmith Odeon in 1979. An album of this program, however, was
not released until 1997.

During this era, Nugent was notable for
his frequent declarations that he did not drink alcoholic beverages
or smoke tobacco or marijuana. In an interview for VH1's Behind The
Music, Nugent said this was due to his father having sternly
reprimanded him when he came home smelling of alcohol after a night
of drinking. This was an unusual stance for a major rock performer
of the 1970s, and Nugent has been cited as an important early
influence on the straight edge movement, which disavows drinking and
recreational drug use.

Influences

Nugent has been praised for his playing
style, and is cited as an influence by many other hard rock and
heavy metal musicians. Nugent has cited his own musical influences
as Vanilla Fudge, Jeff Beck, Chuck Berry, The Kinks, Jimmy Page, The
Rolling Stones, The Who, The Yardbirds, Bo Diddley, Eric Clapton,
Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, The
Animals, Little Richard, MC5, Frank Zappa, and Muddy Waters.

Damn
Yankees

During the period of 1982-86, Nugent
released a series of moderately successful solo albums. Near the end
of the 1980s, he formed the supergroup Damn Yankees, with Jack
Blades (bass/vocals, formerly of Night Ranger), Tommy Shaw
(guitar/vocals, formerly of Styx) and Michael Cartellone
(drums/vocals). Damn Yankees (1990) was a hit, selling 5 million
albums, thanks in no small part to the smash hit power ballad "High
Enough". The video for this song featured Nugent in a priest's
collar, and later in a zebra-striped cape during the guitar solo. It
also saw the first appearance of his famous 'WhackMaster' hat.

Back to
solo

Returning to a solo career, Nugent
released Spirit of the Wild in 1995, his best-reviewed album in
quite some time. This album also marked the return of Derek St.
Holmes to Nugent's studio band. A series of archival releases also
came out in the 1990s, keeping Nugent's name in the national
consciousness. He also began hosting a radio show in Detroit and
took ownership in several hunting-related businesses. He created TV
shows for several networks; Wanted: Ted or Alive on Versus, Ted
Nugent Spirit of the Wild on PBS and The Outdoor Channel, as well as
Surviving Nugent and Supergroup-Damnocracy on VH1. In 2006, Nugent
was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.

Ted Nugent appears on David Crowder
Band's 2007 release, Remedy, playing guitar on the song "We Won't Be
Quiet".

Nugent announced his "Trample the weak,
hurdle the dead" tour on April 21, 2010. Tour dates are still being
finalized.

Nugent starred in his own outdoors
television show named after his popular song "Spirit of the Wild".
The song was the theme music to the TV series in which Nugent took
viewers on a variety of wild game hunts using his bow. In the series
he teaches and advises hunters and "hands-on" conservationists
around the world on the different aspects of hunting and politics,
and informs the public on the importance of getting children away
from the TV and video games and getting them out beyond the pavement
in order to better their lives.

In 2003, he was host of the VH1 reality
television program called Surviving Nugent in which city dwellers
such as model Tila Tequila moved to Nugent's Michigan ranch in order
to survive such "backwoods" activities as building an outhouse and
skinning a boar. The success of the two-hour show spawned a
four-part miniseries in 2004 entitled Surviving Nugent: The Ted
Commandments. This time it was filmed on Nugent's ranch in China
Spring, Texas. During filming, Nugent injured himself with a
chainsaw, requiring 44 stitches and a leg brace.

In 2003, Nugent was a guest on the VH1
program Forever Wild, hosted by Sebastian Bach (former lead vocalist
for the band Skid Row). They shot some firearms and walked around
Nugent's cabin in the woods.

In 2005, Nugent was the host of a
reality-type show entitled Wanted: Ted or Alive on OLN (now the
sports channel 'Versus') where contestants competed for money as
well as for opportunities to go hunting with "Uncle Ted." The
contestants had to kill and clean their own food to survive.

In 2006, he appeared on VH1's reality
show SuperGroup, with Scott Ian (Anthrax, guitar), Evan Seinfeld
(Biohazard, bass), Sebastian Bach (ex-Skid Row, vocals) and Jason
Bonham (Bonham, UFO, Foreigner, drums). The name of the supergroup
was originally FIST but later was changed to Damnocracy. Bach had
lobbied for the name Savage Animal. Captured on film by VH1 was a
rare Nugent duet with guitar phenom Joe Bonamassa at the Sand Dollar
Blues Room for a 45-minute blues jam.

In 2008, Nugent appeared in a fourth
season episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.

He starred in another reality show for
CMT in August 2009. The show, entitled Runnin' Wild ... From Ted
Nugent, featured Nugent instructing competitors in the art of
survival; the competitors had to use those skills in challenges in
which they were hunted down by Nugent.

Also in 2009, he played guitar at The
Alamo for a Tax Day Tea Party hosted by Glenn Beck and Fox News.
Most notable in his set was a version of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
in which he used alternate picking and whammy bar effects. The clip
and sound bite of this is played extensively on Fox News as well as
on The Glenn Beck Program.

Acting

In 1986, he guest starred in an episode
of the hit television show Miami Vice entitled "Definitely Miami."
Nugent played a villain. His song "Angry Young Man" was featured in
the episode. His song "Little Miss Dangerous" was also featured on a
Miami Vice episode of the same name, although he did not appear in
the episode.

In 1990 he guest starred in the
Canadian film Heavy Metal Summer. It was shown on cable channels in
the US as State Park.

In 2001, Nugent appeared as himself in
a third season episode of That '70s Show entitled "Backstage Pass."
Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon), who works for radio station WFPP,
obtains tickets to the upcoming Ted Nugent concert for the entire
gang. Following the concert, her boss Max (Howard Hesseman) gives
Donna a backstage pass to meet Nugent, where he volunteers to sit
for an interview. Meanwhile, Steven Hyde (Danny Masterson) and Fez
(Wilmer Valderama) try to sell unauthorized concert t-shirts
accidentally spelled Tad Nugent.

Nugent made a guest appearance on the
cult television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in the episode "Gee
Whiz," on Adult Swim. Locals believe to have seen the face of Jesus
in a billboard, and they mention how it looks like Ted Nugent.
Throughout the episode they think it's Jesus' face, but at the end
they discover it was in fact Nugent's. He proceeds to shoot a
flaming explosive arrow at Carl (mistaking him for a "varmint").

In 2007, Ted Nugent appeared in the
music video for Nickelback's "Rockstar", and in 2008 he played a key
role in the Toby Keith movie Beer For My Horses as the quiet deputy,
named Skunk.

Other
media appearances

Attracting attention for his outspoken
statements on issues ranging from guns to biodiversity, Nugent has
been a regular guest on such programs as Larry King Live, The Howard
Stern Show, and Politically Incorrect.

In 1991. Ted guest starred on the PBS
science show Newton's Apple in a short comedic feature called
"Science of the Rich and Famous" in which he demonstrates and
explains the phenomenon of electric guitar feedback.

On March 13, 2007, Nugent was
interviewed on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and performed the songs "Cat
Scratch Fever" and "Rawdogs and Warhogs."

In 2007, Ted debated The Simpsons
producer Sam Simon on the Howard Stern Show about the ethics of
hunting animals. Coincidentally, he would later lend his voice to an
over-the-phone appearance in the season 19 episode of The Simpsons,
"I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", where, in a humorous
jab at his political stance, inmate Dwight picks up his call for
voting no to the fictional Proposition 87, which bans crossbows in
public schools.

Also in 2008, Nugent appeared on the
Memphis-based The Political Cesspool, a radio talk show known for
its "pro-white" views.

Nugent was featured in MTV's "Cribs:
Gods of Rock" episode.

On April 15, 2009, Nugent appeared
onstage with his guitar in San Antonio as part of Glenn Beck's
coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests on the Fox News Channel.
He hosted the show with Glenn Beck, and played music for the
protestors at the Alamo.

Nugent makes an appearance in Guitar
Hero: World Tour As part of the solo guitar career, the player
engages in a guitar duel with Nugent, after which the song
"Stranglehold" is unlocked and Dirty Nuge becomes available as a
playable character. Ted was on The Alex Jones Show July 30, 2008
talking about his new book "Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent
Manifesto" (2008) and on July 9, 2010 Ted was again interviewed by
Alex Jones and he criticized the latest policies issued by the Obama
Administration and the Supreme Court concerning Gun restricting
policies, that rejecting the idea of Self-defense that is expressed
in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which Ted
named them as "Gun Control" policies that are most likely to destroy
the American society as was in every society in human history (100%
according to Nugent).

Personal
life

Ted Nugent was born and raised in
Detroit, Michigan before moving to Palatine, Illinois as a teenager.
Ted has two brothers; John Nugent and Jeffrey "Jeff" Nugent. Jeff is
a former chief executive for Revlon. Nugent has mentioned his ties
with the Christian faith many times during interviews, and has
stated that he regularly attends church. He attended Saint Viator
High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He was married to his
first wife, Sandra Jezowski, from 1970 to 1979. They had three
children; daughter Sasha Nugent, daughter Starr Nugent, and son
Theodore Tobias "Toby" Nugent. Sandra died in a car crash in 1982.
In 1978, Nugent began a relationship with seventeen-year-old Hawaii
native Pele Massa. Due to the age difference between him and Massa,
Nugent could not marry her, so he joined Massa's parents in signing
documents to make himself her legal guardian, an arrangement that
Spin magazine ranked in October 2000 as #63 on their list of the
"100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock".

His second marriage was to Shemane
Deziel, whom he met while a guest on Detroit's WLLZ-FM, where she
was a member of the news staff. They married on January 21, 1989 and
remain married to the
present day. They have a son together, Rocco Winchester Nugent, and
a daughter, Chantal Nugent.

In 2005 Nugent was involved in a legal
battle for not paying enough child support for a child he had out of
wedlock in 1995. It was finally resolved when Nugent was ordered to
pay $3,500 a month to the mother of the 10-year-old son named
Christian Taylor whom Nugent has allegedly never met.

In the late 1990s, Nugent began writing
for various magazines. He has written for more than 20 publications
and is the author of New York Times Best Seller God, Guns and Rock
'n' Roll (July 2000), Kill It and Grill It (2002) (co-authored with
his wife, Shemane), BloodTrails II: The Truth About Bowhunting
(2004), and "Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" (2008).

In 1996 Ted joined the WWBR-FM air
staff. The Ted Nugent Morning Show on 102.7 FM in Detroit was a
success. Ted and his co-host Steve Black (now host of the syndicated
radio show Chop Shop and Chop Shop Classic) often shocked Detroit
with their opinions, and Nugent's unique method of delivering his
ideas.

In May 2005, Nugent said he was
"getting real close to deciding to run" for governor of Michigan. On
August 4, 2005, CNN reported that Nugent had decided to not run in
2006 but was keeping his options open for 2010. Nugent also was
rumored to be under consideration by the Illinois Republican Party
as its candidate in that state's 2004 Senate race, given his
Palatine roots. Ted and his family now live in Crawford, Texas, a
small town west of Waco, Texas, which is also the location of former
U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch. He was a weekly contributor
to the local newspaper, the Waco Tribune-Herald until 2009. In July
2008, Nugent reiterated his desire, saying "I was serious when I
threatened to run for office in the past if I cannot find a
candidate who respects the U.S. Constitution and our sacred Bill of
Rights." He has been a special deputy sheriff in Lake County,
Michigan, since 1982 and he also has been a reserve deputy constable
in McLennan County, Texas.

Nugent is a fan of the Detroit Pistons.
He wore a Pistons shirt in the Damn Yankees music video for "Come
Again".

Hearing
Loss

Nugent also suffers from hearing loss.
A November 2005 Rolling Stone article noted Nugent, among others,
has publicly acknowledged hearing problems. "The ear's not too good,
especially with background noise," he said in a 2007 interview.
"[But] that's a small price to pay. Believe me the journey was worth
it."

Philanthropy and activism

Since the early 1990s Nugent has become
both popular and criticized for his conservative beliefs and his
anti-drug and anti-alcohol stances. He is a national spokesman for
the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program, advocating the
"natural highs" to be found in an outdoor lifestyle.

He has hosted the Ted Nugent Kamp for
Kids, which combines a curriculum of hands-on hunting, conservation,
archery and a strong anti-drug message aimed mainly at
underprivileged inner-city children. The summer non-profit program
has had over 1,000 kids attend during the last decade where respect
for nature, preservation, stewardship and basic archery are taught.
Each session is attended by parents as well. Nugent also is a
spokesman for the National Field Archery Association, Mothers
Against Drunk Driving, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

An advocate of hunting and
gun-ownership rights, Nugent currently serves on the Board of
Directors of the National Rifle Association (NRA).

Concealed carry weapon (CCW) law

Nugent is a strong advocate of the
right to bear arms. When interviewed by Texas Monthly editor Evan
Smith in season 5 of Texas Monthly Talks he said, "I would rather
that [a victim of violent crime] in Massachusetts last month who was
taking her daughter to soccer when they were carjacked by a
recidivist maggot, who had been in the prison system all his life
but was let out again because we feel sorry for him, maybe he had a
bad childhood. Instead of her being hijacked and murdered, I'd
rather she just shot the bastard dead... But in Massachusetts,
somebody decided she can't do that. So she's dead. I would rather
she was alive and the carjacker was dead... I'm weird."

He has also been quoted as saying that
the second amendment is the only gun license or carry permit any law
abiding citizen should need.

Conflicts with animal rights groups

Nugent once said in an interview, “I’m
stymied to come up with anything funnier than people who think
animals have rights. Just stick an arrow through their lungs.” In
2000, Bhaskar Sinha was jailed briefly following an incident outside
a department store in San Francisco in which he threatened and
physically assaulted Nugent, who in turn took Sinha into custody
until San Francisco Police arrived and arrested the protester.
However, protesters claim that Nugent started the altercation by
spitting in one of the protester's faces when he was offered an
anti-fur flyer, although police on the scene did not witness such an
action.

Nugent has reported receiving death
threats against him and his family from animal rights activists. On
the Penn & Teller's Bullshit! episode about People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA), Nugent claimed, "We've got reports and
files with law enforcement across America where left-wing animal
rights extremists are on record threatening to kill my children on
the way to school because we eat pheasant." In 2006 he stated in an
interview that "anyone who thinks hunting is terrible can kiss my
ass."

In a 1992 radio
interview, Nugent referred to Heidi Prescott of the Fund for Animals
as a "worthless whore" and a "shallow slut," asking "who needs to
club a seal, when you can club Heidi?" He was ordered by a court to
pay Prescott $75,000.00

Nugent owns a hunting ranch near
Jackson, Michigan, called Sunrize Acres. Anti-hunters claim this
fenced facility offers "canned" hunts. Nugent has said, "I
understand the criticism from those who say canned hunting violates
the ethic of fair chase," though he still operates the facility, and
refers to it as "high fence hunting". Nugent was recently
interviewed by Field & Stream magazine regarding "canned" hunts. At
Sunrize Acres he personally guides customers on a hunt for trophy
bull bison ($5,000), Russian boar, or white-tailed deer ($1,000
each).

In September 2009, Ted Nugent embarked
on a hunt near Somerset, CA. He was accompanied by a guide and a
cameraman, filming for his Outdoor Channel show "Spirit of the
Wild." The video taken appeared in an episode of the show first
broadcast on February 9, 2010. California Fish and Game wardens who
watched the broadcast noticed that it showed Nugent killing a very
young buck which had been attracted by commercial bait. Both the
killing of such a young deer and the use of bait are crimes under
California state law. On August 13, 2010, Nugent pled no contest in
Yuba County to two misdemeanors: illegally baiting a deer, and
failing to have a deer tag signed by a government official after a
kill. He was fined USD$1,750 by the court.

The band Goldfinger has made a song
called "FTN", which is critical of Ted Nugent.

Politics

When asked by Imagineer magazine in a
2010 interview about what he would do if elected to political
office, he said: "Slash the living hell out of the waste and
corruption and the outrageous army of do-nothing bureaucrats. I
would fire every government worker whose job I would deem to be
redundant and wasteful. No able-bodied human being would ever get a
handout again."

According to an interview in The
Independent he "considers homosexuality morally wrong" and is an
outspoken supporter of the Republican Party and the United States
military. As a reward for entertaining US troops in Iraq in 2004, he
visited Saddam Hussein's war room. "It was a glorious moment. It
looked like something out of Star Wars. I saw his gold toilet. I
shit in his bidet." Nugent also said: "Our failure has been not to
Nagasaki them."

At an Anaheim, California concert on
August 21, 2007, Nugent's description of trips to New York and
Chicago, and the conversations he purported to have with the
senators are in keeping with his trademark views, as Nugent went on
to describe similar incidents and invitations to "suck on his
machine gun" with other prominent Democrats, such as Barbara Boxer
and Dianne Feinstein.

Closer to home, Nugent has been
extremely critical of two-term Democratic Michigan Governor Jennifer
Granholm, frequently interjecting "Jennifer Granholm, kiss my ass"
into concert songs, and shooting an arrow at her likeness. In a 2006
interview, when Nugent briefly considered a run for Governor, he
stated that Granholm "is not doing an ugly job, but as the perfect
woman, she is scrotumless." In 2007, he again talked about running
for Michigan Governor in 2010, though it never materialized. At the
time, he stated, "Michigan was once a great state. Michigan was a
state that rewarded the entrepreneur and the most productive,
work-ethic families of the state. Now the pimps and the whores and
the welfare brats are basically the state's babies.

Despite giving previous support for
Republican candidates, he thought John McCain "to be catering to a
growing segment of soulless Americans who care less what they can do
for their country, but whine louder and louder about what their
country must do for them. That is both un-American and pathetic."

Nugent was initially scheduled to speak
at Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally on August 28, 2010, but
subsequently cancelled.

"If Ted Nugent ran for President, I would vote
for him in a heartbeat."Ed Roman

"And most of the evils of society
can, in fact, be cured through information. We have a society that has
been disinformed and based on the disinformation has made irrational choices.
And that's what I mean by 'ignorance. " People, who ordinarily might be smart,
are deprived of the data by which to make a rational decision, don't have the
data to do it."

Frank Zappa

Wisdom From "The Nuge"Sent In By Dean Hamack, Bushido
Designs

Shadowlands The White
Room:A Gun Education Program for America's Schools

By Ted Nugent

People, especially kids, are like
mules sometimes. A gentle stroke of the mane, some sugar, and sweet talk can get
them into position on occasion, but sometimes ya just gotta whack 'em upside the
head with an oil-soaked two-by-four. So to speak. Ultimately, parents,
teachers, and others in authority have to be creative in getting kids'
attention. Real, hard-core attention.

Had America continued with the
quality control of disciplined gun safety education as did our forefathers up
through the 1960s, coupled with commonsense law enforcement and a justice system
that recognizes something resembling justice, I believe we would not have to be
scrambling for such apparent damage control now.

Part of this desperate need for
last ditch damage control is a result of denying the gun's historical and
unavoidable allure. As a boy, I nearly bought the farm through gun
foolishness because, even in an actively supervised gun household, I didn't get
enough cold blue ballistic action to satisfy my gunsmoke
cravings.

Learning from that experience, now
I know intuitively how to eliminate nearly all gun problems in America.
Bold as hell statement, but read on. On one front, we would all
benefit from increased family-gun recreation. The stimulating challenge
that is marksmanship discipline would go a long way in bringing families
together for more intense quality time. In my opinion, there are no better
alternatives.

Movies suck for the most
part. Television is a subterranean land of bottom feeders. Spectator
sports are just that-not something to do-but rather something to watch others
do. There is no place in America where gun sports aren't available to
enjoy. From open state and federal lands, to county gun clubs and public
shooting ranges, and of course on the ever loving family farm, no one is more
than an hour's drive from a good shoot fest. And with all the proper shoot
procedures hammered home, nary an accident can be expected.

Examine the last ten thousand gun
headlines in major daily newspapers across the land. Not one of them occurred on
anything resembling a gun range or on a legal gun-outing. They all
happened downtown by some paroled puke.

Meanwhile, millions upon millions
of law-abiding American families are out shooting skeet and trap, hunting, and
plinking every weekend all over America, with nary a negligent discharge,
injury, or accident to be found.

One of the great joys of
shooting with the tribe is that a higher level of awareness, a conscientious
discipline, becomes ingrained, appreciated, celebrated. It's a source of
great pride that follows through into all aspects of family and individual
life. For all practical purposes, Sergeant York can be cloned with a
minimum of effort.

Through gun sports kids learn the
fundamentals for improved excellence in the classroom-like concentration and
discipline-as well as for the playground (muscle-control), against peer
pressure, and beyond. Rules are cool and details are fun.

Quality of life comes from
self-discipline augmented with parental and authoritative discipline. That's
supervised family shooting fun in a nutshell. That is all well and good for
those inclined to familiarize themselves with firearms and their inherent joys
under supervised conditions in current gun families. But the big question
is how do we introduce those young people to Gun Reality 101 who would not
otherwise likely be exposed to firearms in a knowledgeable and responsible
fashion?

I'll tell you how. Enter "The
White Room." Implemented into all public and private schools' mainstream
curriculum would be Ballistics 101, from K through 12th grade. We would
find, cultivate, and train law enforcement officers, retired military personnel,
even qualified volunteers, who can communicate in a proven effective manner and
style to each age group.

At the outset of each school
year-just a single day would suffice-this expert would enter the classroom in
uniform with an uppity, confident, even buoyant spirit and attitude, carrying a
.357 magnum sidearm and a .223 military long arm. Always smiling, but
serious and direct nonetheless, our expert would address the children in a
friendly, workman-like tone and demeanor and explain how "we are going to learn
about guns today." Holding up an array of different rifle and handgun
cartridges, he would cross reference each to an accompanying colorful, large,
easy-to-read chart, explaining relative velocities and kinetic energies in
clearly understandable terms. For example, a baseball and hockey puck's
feet-per-second speed in comparison to his .357 and .223 rounds. Ballistic
gelatin marked with the corresponding bullet destruction could be fondled and
examined. Various cartridges could be passed around the classroom and questions
and answers would follow. We would encourage kids to share their own shooting
experiences such as a father's preferred deer hunting round or their own
personal experience plinking with a .22.

The official in charge could then
briefly outline, emphasize, and encourage supervised shooting while coming down
hard on any illegal or unsafe anecdote. A video of TV shooting
episodes would be shown exposing them for the folly that they are. It would be
explained how thousands of rounds from fully automatic machine guns do not
merely cause sparks to fly while no one seems to get hit. Then detailed, graphic
photos of actual shooting victims would be reviewed in all their bloody hell as
an emphatic display of real world ballistic mayhem.

Questions and answers would
resume. Now here's the good part. Enter the never to be forgotten "White
Room." The children would be led into a properly constructed prefab shooting
range chamber with all white walls, ceiling and floor, with a nice white table
at the far end. On the white table would sit six all-white gallon cans of tomato
juice with yellow smiley faces on them.

The kids would
be seated and provided ear and eye protection

The
instructor would then put on his ears and eyes, look squarely and
sternly into the faces of the children, slam back the bolt of his
AR-15 with the muzzle pointing back at the juice cans. He would then
speak in a loud, clear voice, saying, "Pay very close attention,
please." At which point he would level the .223 and in a smooth,
rapid succession, commence to annihilate three cans in a shower of
exploding red juice, splashing violently all over the pretty white
walls, table, ceiling and floor, himself, and even some of those in
attendance. Slinging the long arm onto his shoulder, our shooter
would then unholster his sidearm and do the same to the remaining
three cans with the same dynamic results. Holstering his handgun, he then
would turn to face the roomful of stunned kids, fold his arms across his chest,
and allow blatant facts to permeate and stain the psyche and souls of everyone
there.

For the next few moments, the kids
would confront the scene and the silence for maximum absorption. I promise you,
not one of these children would ever touch a firearm without proper supervision.
The common sense follow up to this bold, brave lesson would be to send home to
parents common sense recommendations on gun safety and information on where to
go for shooting lessons so that kids' natural interest and fascination with guns
could be channeled in a constructive way.

I am convinced that not only would
this powerful experience forcefully deter the misuse of firearms, but, also of
equal importance, it would lay the groundwork for an explosion in gun sales and
growth in the firearm's industry, perpetuating a dynamic upgrade in responsible
firearm ownership. The ultimate result of all this would create a
heretofore unprecedented positive voting voice for law-abiding gun owners
everywhere. And of course with this increased level of awareness, would come a
louder voice for better enforcement of existing gun laws and the elimination of
counterproductive laws as well. Simply stated, once "we the people" get more
involved, the bureaucrats would scramble to better understand us and, therefore,
better represent us. In the absence of sense, nonsense runs amok.

Ted Nugent is
the Author of Blood Trails: The Truth about Bow hunting 1990 and Ted
Nugent: God, Guns & Rock-n-Roll Regnery Publishing, July 2000.
He lectures throughout the country to American youth promoting individualism
through outdoor sports and conservation. and has created an educational
teleconferencing program with school systems across the nation. Nugent has
served on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association since
1995 and is a spokesman for the National Field Archers Association, Mothers
Against Drunk Driving, Big Brothers & Big Sisters, and the Drug Abuse
Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) law enforcement program

And Oh Yeah, He's my
Hero!!!!!

Ed Roman

Ted Nugent, Lindsey Star Roman & Ed Roman

Ted Nugent for President!!

Feel Free to send this to your
congressman!!!

"Some Pearls of Wisdom From the
Nuge"

With some commentary from Ed Roman

Ted Nugent has a big mouth. And he's
proud of it.

"I will not be shy," the Motor City Madman said recently from his ranch in
Michigan. "I am an American man. There is a job to be done. And if I hurt
someone's feelings in the process, who cares? Feelings aren't important, quality
of life is."

Nugent, 53, is an anomaly in the left-leaning music industry by being about
as conservative as you can get. He's vehemently against drugs and alcohol, he
abhors junk food, he wants everyone to speak English, and he wants to do away
with welfare. And that's just the beginning.

But his most controversial stance has been on the right to bear arms. An avid
hunter for most of his life, Nugent tirelessly promotes the lifestyle via any
medium he can, including his television show on the Outdoor Channel, a radio
show, summer camps for youth, an annual safari, books, videos, magazine
articles, political forums and just about anywhere that has a microphone.

Needless to say, that hasn't made him very popular with animal rights
organizations. Not that he cares. Even a damaged nerve, the result of dental
work gone awry, can't stop him from sharing his views, as this interview
proves.

So, has your tooth condition affected your performance?

It's made it more intense! The all-ahead, full adrenaline liftoff every night
on stage is sanctuary for me. When you're surrounded with the caliber of
virtuosos that I've been so privileged to collaborate with over the years, it's
just an absolute sonic bombast spiritual barbecue orgy on stage every night, and
I crave every delirious moment of it.

Long-standing friends who have seen me perform for 30-some years say my voice
has never sounded better. (Laughs.) So I might have to find a new source of pain
when the tour's over.

How did you
do last hunting season?

Best hunting season of my life, and it's only going to be eclipsed by this
hunting season. I put up a couple of tree stands this morning, and the deer
trails at my place can only be described as motocross paths. I've never seen so
many deer. In fact, I've got a letter from a biologist who studies my land every
year, because I have such a spectacular ecosystem on my property . . . and he
goes on to expound on how he's going to contact DNR (Department of Natural
Resources), because I'm not killing enough deer on my property. And believe me,
I kill lots! Last year, I killed 68 with my bow and arrow! I imagine I will
break 100 this year on my property alone.

Animal rights activists don't agree that you have to control the animal
population to keep a healthy ecosystem.

The truth is universally available that habitat can support so much life, and
that population dynamics determine productivity. These are scientific truisms
that the hunting community has always responded to before 1900. That's why Teddy
Roosevelt stopped the slaughter of the buffalo and the grizzly bear. That's why
we regulated the marketing of ducks for women's hat fashion. That's why we
created bag limits and restrictions - because we know the science.

The animal rights activists, don't even think they have a meaningful bone in
their body. They don't care about health and balance. Every time I hear the
words "animal" and "rights" in the same sentence, I vow to kill 100 more of
something. Every time they open their mouths, I make sure to make the point of,
"Bloody your hands, because 100 of something is going to die. I'm going to kill
them in your name."

I heard you
speak during a hunting convention in Danville, Ill., in 1994. At the time, you
said one reason hunters get a bad rap was that hunting shows on TV only show
guys named Bubba who talk like hicks and wear their hats sideways. Has that
perception changed ?

The Bubbas are alive and well. They're still chewing tobacco, they're still
scaring women and children away from our sport. They're still editing outdoor
magazines and TV shows, and they embarrass me. They are so unsophisticated, they
are so rude, they are so stuck in the "Leave it to Beaver" mindset as to be
embarrassing. That's why I've become so outspoken, because Bubba doesn't
represent the heart and soul of the hunting community. I do. (Raises voice.)
It's uppity, it's spirited, it's got a great sense of humor. We kill stuff and
eat it. Get over it! We're not apologizing anymore! Your tuna salad is dead,
America! Celebrate it! Kill more tuna, eat more salad, shut the f#$k up! (Laughs
loudly.)

Your press agent told me she wanted the article to concentrate on
music, so we'd better switch to that.

The music is all these things. My passion, my fear, my American dream, my
craving, the creative force that is my music, the collaboration with these
incredible virtuosos, it's the equal and fueled fire by my overall passion for a
high level of awareness that is maximized in the bow hunting methodology. So the
music cannot be separated from the predator awareness jihad. You can't separate
the music from the hunting, it's one and the same.

Tell me about your upcoming album, "Craveman."

God help us all. I couldn't be more proud of this thing, and I attribute it
to the virtuosity of Tommy Clufetos, my drummer, and Marco Mendoza, my bass
player. These guys are so gifted, they drive me batty. They are such the musical
challenge and inspiration, and the music on "Craveman" reflects that energy.

It's been eight years since your last studio album. What took you so
long ?

Well, I'm always writin', I'm always playin', I'm always jammin'. It's just a
matter of logistically getting the right team to facilitate the recording of my
current musical outrage.

Can we expect the classic Nugent sound of "Wango Tango" and "Cat
Scratch Fever," or Damn Yankees-style power ballads, or a different sound
altogether?

You know, I never think of those terms. We just plug in and start rippin'.
There's no question that the final analysis of the "Craveman" music is more
intense than anything I've ever done.

You've been called many things by many people, but one thing you have
never been called is shy.

Yeah, I hear ya . . . I'm alive, I demand that I am "we the people," and that
this experiment of self-government is led by me and my world. I know what the
intellectual, and I believe spiritual, obligation of an American citizen is, and
that's to be active.

I love when the media claims I'm mouthing off. You're the ones who ask me the
questions! What would I be if I didn't respond, a snob? I mouth off when I
answer their questions, but when someone doesn't respond, they're a big,
egotistical snob.

Gene Simmons of KISS boasts in his book, "KISS and Makeup," that he's
slept with more than 4,000 women. Do you have him beat?

We don't talk about those things, because Mrs. Nugent is a great shot.
(Laughs.) That era is over, and that's something I will take to my grave with
me.

I see you and (wife) Shemane have a new cookbook out, "Kill it and
Grill it."

Yeah, we've written a book that celebrates what we consider to be a sacred
event in our daily life, and that is the eating process. We don't put junk in
our bodies. No drugs, no alcohol, no tobacco, and certainly no junk food. My
idea of fast food is a mallard.

The cookbook is celebrating the importance of quality control in our diet.
The pandemic of obesity is symptomatic of an overall disconnect and decay of
individual consciousness in America. I find it vulgar, I find it - you know, you
just don't give God the finger when he blesses you with the gift of health by
poisoning that health. I'm astonished that my fellow man can be so stupid as to
become fat and blubberish.

When is your "MTV Cribs" show set to air?

They tell me the first part of October. I can't wait to see what they do with
that. I said, "Well, you can call it a crib if you want, and I suppose when
you're on parole, you do need a crib, because you need someone to hold your hand
and wipe your (butt). But this is not my crib, this is actually my home."

And I made that quite clear with them, so it will remain to be seen. It
should be cute, because my crib happens to be 10,000 acres of sacred swamp, and
it's a little bit different than the (expletives) you will never hear from in a
couple of years who have gold faucets. Bunch of misprioritized little crybabies!
They make me wanna throw up!

Are you going to extend it into a regular series like "The
Osbournes?"

We've got this "Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild" TV show that's all across the
country, but I'm incapable of doing anything remotely like "The Osbournes,"
because I can still talk, I can still walk, (and) my children would never swear
at their parents, much less any adult, except in a time of proper response.
Everything about "The Osbournes" is embarrassing and pathetic, and it's even
more embarrassing and pathetic that any American would find humor and
entertainment therein.

When it's all said and done, what would you like people to think of
when they hear the name, "Ted Nugent?"

Well, first of all, I'd rather they didn't, but I guess I can't stop it now,
because I've been a force to be reckoned with. I'm sure the people of intellect
will remember me for being a positive voice for our right to keep and bear arms,
our right to hunt, fish, trap and be hands-on resource stewards. That I fought
diligently to reduce tax abuse and to eliminate welfare. That I was a real
activist for the equality of the American dream, and that I dedicated a lot of
energy and resources to children to teach them to stay away from poisons and
crime. I'm sure I will be remembered for the intensity of my music.

And I'm sure that some LSD-infected, Jerry Garcia fan will go, "He killed
Bambi!" And that would make me just that much happier. I cause my critics great
grief, and that is my greatest joy.

OK, This Is Why I Like Ted
!!!

My favorite songs he does are "Journey to the Center of the mind"
" Fred Bear" "Stranglehold" his music is
good, his stage presence is awesome and at 63 he's sharp as a tack.

Ted is no fool, He's as intellectual as Albert Einstein. True he's a
little rough around the edges, probably because he's a rocker, and a bit of a
cowboy, but I can tell he is as enlightened as they come. His intellect is
awesome, I would just be happy to have his common sense.

We could all learn a real lot from Ted Nugent! This is a good, honest
and decent man, He loves his wife, his children, his home, his hobbies, his
guns, his guitars & his music. When I grow up I want to be just like Ted.
When my kids grow up, I hope they will have the same idealistic values that Ted
has.

I like Ozzy Osbourne a lot but I have to admit Ted is right about what he
says. The Oz is simply not a good influence, I have listened to Ozzy since the
70's, I like what Ozzy has to say. The problem is no one can understand him.
Kids today are a mess because of what they are exposed to. In my opinion, most
of Ozzy's fans like him because of his outrageousness. I would bet that most of
them don't know what the song "Crazy Train" is all about. (Listen To The
Words They Are Very Cool)

MTV Cribs? "
I don't live in a Crib I live in a house" Ted hit that one on the head! Those sniveling little Turdball MTV fags are a bunch of slimy little scumbags. MTV used to be good in
the 80's, now it's a political soapbox for every rap artist ("rap artist" is an
oxymoron, just like "rap music") gangsta copkiller
f#$k. Gangsta, what a stupid word. Don't get me started on
this s#!t. Ok Ok some of it is good but for the most part it's Crap Rap

Does anyone remember what MTV used to
be?

MTV! Music Television

All Music! All the
Time!

Bring the real MTV back and
flush "MTV Cribs" down the Toilet

with the rest of the filthy
excrement.

I love guns, I collect guns, since I have lived out
here in Vegas I have been able to spend a lot more time shooting them than when
I lived back east. I especially enjoy shooting at cell phones from 600 yards and
getting a direct hit. I am not much at shooting animals or hunting.
Personally, I would have an easier time shooting some humans I have
met. I don't hunt, but I
probably would, if I knew how to clean & dress the meat. I do eat meat, and I
will always eat meat, so whether I'm the one pulling the trigger or I'm the one
spooning on the gravy it makes absolutely no difference. (Practicing
on a cell phone is good for headshots to the ear.)

Ted is right !!
I don't care what uninformed animal activists have to say!

Animals don't die of old age, animals are either killed by hungry predators,
hit by automobiles or as Ted does hunted as game. I am sure that Ted is humane,
and responsible about what animals he kills. If no one hunted the animals, we
would be over run with starving animals, who would be in the roads being hit by
our cars, and in our garbage trying to get something to eat.

Ted is right !!
The activists are
wrong!!

If you truly cared about the animal you would thank Ted
& people like him
for giving a s#!t. However the public is largely uninformed, that's why
large guitar companies continue to flourish because usually the
public is uninformed. DON'T BUY
CORPORATE GUITARS"Big corporations have ruined our country and destroyed
our economy" Our Nation is a nation of retail
stores selling imported crap. Our factories are shut down, other countries are
not buying our products because we don't make anything anymore. WAKE UP IDIOTS!!! Support our
country anyway you can. Buy American, make sure you aren't buying an
American assembled guitar that was completely built in Korea or Mexico. You
would be surprised to find out that many so called American Made Guitars are in
fact Imported.

If Ted has an animal in his crosshairs and he wasn't 100% positive that he
had a clean humane kill shot. I would bet my life, that he wouldn't take the
shot., How can I be so sure of that. Because Ted is not an
Asshole!!!!!.

Only a total Asshole would take a cheap shot at an animal, a wounded
animal will die an unhappy painful death. Much like the death of raised ranch
cattle. I am told they hit the cattle on the head, with a hard piece of
steel, if it doesn't die right away they beat it to death. (No guns in a slaughterhouse).

Ted's way is a well placed bullet or an arrow will kill the
animal instantly, The animal won't even hear the shot. 100% Safe, 100% Humane,
100% The only way I can think of performing an unhappy task. At least the animal
was free & enjoyed it's life, at least the animal had a chance to
survive.

The killing floor in the slaughterhouse is a no win situation
for a corn fed cow, I myself will not eat veal because of the way they are
raised & killed.

I am given to understand that they put the
baby lamb in a cage so small it cannot move. I am told, the reason they do this,
is so that no muscles will develop to spoil the tenderness of the meat. This
type of thing makes me sick to my stomach, I will never eat veal.

I don't believe that people should wear fur. The reasoning here
is a bit confusing. In reality I think fur should be used instead of chemically
made fabrics. The problem is not the hunters who shoot eat and skin the animal,
The problem is the scumbag bastard who traps the exotic rarer animals so that
some dumb bimbo can strut around wearing a lynx coat and a baby seal hat.
Consequently fur should not be worn. If nobody wore it, the vermin who deal in it,
would have to find something else scummy to do. After all the only reason they
do it is for money. (Maybe they could be Ebay Maggots)

I like Ted's Opinion on Fast Food

I personally hate large corporations, I will go way out of my way to try to
find a small family owned restaurant that
isn't some kind of a chain.
I don't like the fact that these bastards use all types of fillers &
chemicals to get you to buy their hydrogenated, pasteurized, homo_genized fake food. You can go to a decent small
restaurant and eat a real nice lunch for less money than one of these fast food
chains will rip you off for.
(Speaking Of Chains)

My biggest vice is food, I love to eat, I eat too
much and I look like I eat too much. Ted thinks that's gross and Ted is
right !!!!

As I
said, we could all learn a lot from Ted Nugent, especially me.

Ted, on Gene Simmons "KISS & Makeup" (Should be KISS & TELL)

Ted is not out to try to prove his manhood, by telling everyone how many women
he slept with. More proof that Ted is not an Asshole. Ted is simply
too cool, to be a fool and talk trash about his private life before he was
married. He obviously loves & respects his wife, you can tell by what he says
and how he says it. I respect Ted for that. Ted's wife is one
in a million also. Brains, Beauty & Common Sense (Unbeatable Combination)

Ted, On Bubba:

Ted is right again,He must carefully think about
everything he says because I haven't seen him wrong about anything yet. The
hunting community does get a bad rap because of the tobacco chewing alcoholic
Bubba types that tend to be the hunting worlds power brokers.